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From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of May We Be Forgiven.

Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide range of visceral responses. Here is the incredible story of an imprisoned pedophile who is drawn into an erotically charged correspondence with a nineteen-year-old suburban coed. As the two reveal--and revel in--their obsessive desires, Homes creates in The End of Alice a novel that is part romance, part horror story, at once unnerving and seductive.

Praise For The End of Alice…

"With all the cunning and control of a brilliant lover, she takes us places we dare not go alone."

-- Los Angeles Times

"The book shocks, mesmerizes, repels, and titillates, erupting at one unforgettable point in a harrowing flashback that does for baths what Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho did for showers."

-- Vanity Fair

"A breathtaking new novel...certain to cause controversy."

-- Elle

"Superlative...undeniably shocking...superbly achieved by a
writer who is a true artist."

-- Vogue

"As dark and treacherous as ice on the highway...A. M. Homes
never plays it safe and it begins to look as if she can do almost anything."